omuk hosted Mark Estdale’s video game voice masterclass for RADA students. Here one group are being introduced to Telltale Games’ Walking Dead. As well as exploring game play and looking at what the future of games will mean for actors, the students had opportunities to get on mic at the production sharp end. Time was also spent exploring casting and approaches to character work.
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CDT got described as “the Holy Grail of game dialogue”. Not a bad start to GDC 2013. The tools don’t look sexy but what they do is orgasmic. Of course we agree seeing we’ve invested almost 15 years in their development.
For those who don’t know, one thing they do is that they help transform the recording studio into a fluid creative space. For performance to work context is everything; get it wrong and …
After the speed of Days 1 & 2, Day 3 seemed to just create mess as a bewildering array of cables appeared from holes in walls.
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Day 2 and all is going to plan. Main structures are in and sealed, and studio diffusers are 2/3 in. I guess today will be the most impressive as the main structure is up and taking shape. Day 3 will be wire and pipes as the AC, AV, audio, network and electricity all gets plumbed in and tested. Then we’ll be fine tuning the acoustics of the main studio space. We don’t want it to be just dead space as we’re aiming t…
As Chaos on Deponia tops 79 on Metacritic the builders start our few days of our own chaos: the build of our new studio.
We’ve been planning a studio revolution for over a decade and today it starts. Like welcoming a child into the world it’s nerve wracking, exciting and all fingers are crossed in the hope that the results are going to be perfect. For studio 2 we’ve broken away from traditional design to make a recordi…
A big hats off to the developer, cast and crew. Another OMUK job well done.
Here’s a few more words from the web: "The humour is fresh, and strongly delivered by a great cast of voice actors."
"…great cast of voice actors." "…the voice acting is terrific."
Go check out the game: Official Site or go buy it on Steam
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As a great session with Nathaniel Parker gets to the last line, he cracks. Mark started the camera about 5 minutes in. By the end we were all in tears and delighted that Nat was happy to share this with the world at large. Support it on youtube: http://youtu.be/m33sYvX20lY
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Thursday 8 Nov 2012. Casting directors Joyce Nettles and Jeremy Zimmermann join with Mark Estdale for a special panel on casting for 3rd year students at RADA.
It has been a long standing omuk goal to encourage the leading drama schools to take voice acting for video games seriously. Young talent is always needed in games yet the skills required to perform well are frequently either missing or misunderstood. Opening a dialogue with t…
Super Saturday’s magnificent Team GB Olympic gold rush was preceded by a completely unrelated talk at the Royal Armouries by OMUK’s Mark Estdale on sound design and the sounds of war in video games.
Contrasting realism and sound for dramatic impact Mark took the audience on a sonic journey dipping into the Foley artist’s arsenal and torturing the audience with the sound of celery and demonstrating the po…
"Deponia’s tale of love, loss, and all-out comedy is a beautifully constructed piece of point-and-click heaven." "Fantastic writing and voice acting" Writes Gamespot’s Mark Walton.
Here is Mark’s video review of Deponia, the latest point and click adventure to get the OM treatment.
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